A month after writing on “the perils of German power”, historian Liana Fix received an unusual dinner invitation in Washington.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz was in town in March for talks with Donald Trump and wanted to see the German researcher privately to debate her article, which had taken Berlin by surprise.
In the essay, Fix outlined how her country’s ambitious rearmament plans could go wrong — from industrial competition with countries such as France to a scenario in which the far-right, Russia-friendly Alternative for Germany party used military clout to bully its neighbours.
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